Chapter 2 Glove Implementation 2 Arduino

2.2 Arduino
2.2.1 What is Arduino?
Arduino is an open source electronics prototyping platform composed
of a microcontroller, a programming language, and an IDE. Arduino is
a tool for making interactive applications, designed to simplify this
task for beginners but still flexible enough for experts to develop
complex projects. there is a rapidly increasing number of projects
using Arduino as their computing core.
The Arduino community is very large, and so is the number of
tutorials, reference books, and libraries available. Being open source
means that there are Arduino clones that you can choose for your
projects.
The intentional simplicity of approach to the Arduino platform has
permitted an access to physical computing for people who would have
never thought of using or programming a microcontroller before the
Arduino era.
2.2.2 Before using Arduino.
The basic requirements to work with the Arduino is to buy an Arduino
board and a standard USB cable ( A to B plug ) , and you will need
more component to implement the various applications.
Arduino is compatible with most of OS and we can find the
appropriate version on the official website Arduino.cc